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SOME COLORADO GRASSES. 
LOLIUM PERENNE (L.). 
(Rye Grass.) 
A native perennial grass of Europe. Stems are 2 to- 
3 feet high, leafy, carrying a spike-like panicle 6 to 8' 
in length ; spikelets f' long, seven to eleven-flowered, 
placed edge-wise to the stem; outer glume half as long 
as the spikelets, inner one usually absent. 
Worthy of trial here. Considered a valuable grass 
by those who have tried it at the East. 
ANALYSIS. 
Moisture_ 8.50 
Ash_ 8.81 
Fat_ 3.44 
Albuminoid nitrogen_10.44 
Crude fiber_ 21.2G 
Nitrogen-free extract_56.05 
Total_100.00 
DEYEUXIA SYLVATXCA (Kth.). 
Culms 1 to 2 feet high, rigid, leafy; radical leaves 
as long as the panicle, stem leaves becoming gradually 
shorter, scabrous, involute, acuminate, pointed; panicle 
dense, spike like, 3 to 6 inches long; rays usually in 5s, 
rough ; outer glumes nearly equal, lanceolate, pointed ; the 
upper three-nerved, the lower one-nerved; rough on the 
keel, longer than the floret; flowering glume three or four¬ 
toothed, grooved on the back; the divergent rough, stout, 
awn bent and twisted below the middle; hairs copious,, 
silky, unequal, longest at the sides. 
[See cut on opposite page.] 
